Monday, August 25, 2014

Is it really possible to please your master?

A note to my friends in the North Bay. I was
awoken in what felt like the middle of the night by the bed shaking slightly. I
thought it was a minor localized tremor. Then I woke to reports of a 6.0
earthquake in Napa. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of you and to
everyone affected by the quake.

Thanks to Rae Monet for this fabulous cover. I
love, love, love it! And for your reading pleasure, Pleasing Mr. Sutton is live! Book 5
in the West Coast series features Rance Sutton and Monica Dawson. You met them
both in The
Other Man, West
Coast, Book 4. Ward and Spence bandy about the idea that the statuesque Miss
Dawson is actually Mr. Sutton’s sex slave. Well, here’s the real story!

He has only one rule. She will do
everything he says exactly when he tells her to do it.

Chairman of the board Rance Sutton
is looking for a new playmate, an untried submissive he can train to do things
his wicked way.

Miss Dawson, the chairman's
personal secretary, wants to get a lot more personal. What better way than
becoming his new submissive? After all, she already does everything his way. So
really, what's a little spanking, flogging, handcuffing, and blindfolding if
the payoff is Mr. Sutton in her bed? And that's something she's dreamed about
for the entire fiveyears she's worked
for him.

The problem? This will be no love
affair. He will be her master. And she will be his slave. Miss Dawson's desires
aren't part of the bargain; everything will be about pleasing Mr. Sutton...

“I have the perfect candidate for the new position.” Monica
placed the resume on his big desk and slid it across to him. She’d given
herself an hour to prepare before presenting it. That hour had also given Mr.
Sutton a chance to enjoy his first cup of coffee, a special blend she brewed
him. He’d be mellower now.

“That was fast work.” He remained seated while she stood
before him. It seemed submissive, like the teenage girl who’s forced to stand
before the headmaster.

“The choice ended up being quite easy.” She laced her
fingers behind her back. Again there was a submissive feel to the gesture.
She’d dressed for him. Her blouse was teal, sheer with a lacy camisole beneath,
which she’d paired with a cream skirt that hugged her behind, but dropped
tastefully to below the knees. She felt sexy but tailored, classy but inviting.

“Commendable work,” he said, picking up the resume.

Her tension began to rise as he read. She’d addressed every
bullet point on his list. She was intrigued by the lifestyle, she’d never
dabbled, she wanted him to teach her, she was willing to accept pain to receive
pleasure, she needed his punishment, and so on. His eyes flicked back and forth
across the page, but not another muscle twitched. Until finally he laid the
single sheet of paper back on the expensively tooled leather top of his desk.

“You already have a job, Miss Dawson.”

She willed her cheeks not to flame. “Yes. But as I assume
this new position”—she flexed the
word, adding a sexual spin—“will be extracurricular, I believe I can carry out
both functions to your complete satisfaction.”

He watched her unblinkingly, and the temperature in the
office began to rise. A flush started inside, rushing out to her skin. He had
to notice the scarlet blaze.

“I have no doubt about your abilities, but it’s never good
to mix business and pleasure. We have a professional relationship. Making you
my submissive would violate that.”

A kernel of ice expanded in her chest. He was turning her
down.

“This is not the kind of thing you can turn on and off, Miss
Dawson. I think it’s best—”

She couldn’t let him reject her. “A lot of people might
consider that asking me to buy sex toys for you is violating our business
relationship.”

“You are my personal secretary. I never asked you to
demonstrate the devices for me.”

“In a corporate environment, the CEO doesn’t ask his
secretary to search for submissive playmates.” She’d been about to cite Holt
Montgomery, CEO of West Coast Manufacturing, as an example, but he was marrying
his secretary next month, so that comparison might fall short.

“I mentioned when I hired you that some of the tasks I gave
you would be of a more personal nature.” His face was implacable. Unreadable.
Mr. Sutton could be a hard man when he chose. Last night’s bravado was starting
to fade.

But if she backed down now, there would never be another
chance. Just the fact that she’d asked had changed their working relationship.
How would she get over the embarrassment, let alone the rejection? She’d made
the choice, now she had to convince him.

“There are advantages you might not have thought of,” she
told him. “Except when you have meetings or when we’re traveling”—she
accompanied him and took care of the details—“we’re alone in this suite all
day.” She flourished a hand to encompass his office, her smaller accommodations
outside, and the conference room. “You must have thought about having a
submissive you can command during the day.” She lowered her voice. “Make her do
anything. Right here.” She lovingly stroked the desk’s leather top. “Or over
there.” She pointed to the sofa.

She imagined herself splayed out on that genteel couch. Or
facedown on his desk while he did all those mysterious dominant things to her.
“Anything,” she said softly. “Anywhere.”

His nostrils flared slightly, the first indication of an
emotion. “Miss Dawson.”

She wouldn’t let him stop her. “Every time you send me out
to buy one of those devices”—she drew
out the word for effect—“I’m dying to know exactly what you do with them.” She
moistened her lips. “How it would feel.”

He swallowed, his Adam’s apple gliding slowly along his
throat. “Miss Dawson.” It was all he seemed capable of saying.

How far could she go? She’d waited a long time for this
opportunity. She’d go to great lengths to make it happen.

So she told him the truth, in a soft sexual purr meant for
the bedroom. “And every time it makes me wet.”

A bonus for lovers of
the Open Invitation series, we just put up the full series in a boxed set! I’m
really excited about having Invitation Seduction, Invitation
to Pleasure, and Invitation to
Passion bundled together again as they were in the original anthology. KindleKindleUKNookiBooksiBooks AUiBooks UK.